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What do you think things like welfare, graduated income taxes, social security, are based on?

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Based on the belief that it's the government's responsibility to wath after the welfare of its people. I don't see how that even comes close to legislating morality.

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What is the source of that belief?

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That would be the United States Constitution.

Anyway, you're right that it often comes down to different definitions of morality no matter which party is involved, but clearly the party whose definition involves banning every personal vice they can think of in the name of some religious ideal would be the worse option.